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# Incubator PMC report for October 2021

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

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## Community

### New IPMC members:

### People who left the IPMC:

## New Podlings

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month

## Graduations
  - list podling here

  The board has motions for the following:

  - Your podling here?

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  September:

## IP Clearance

## Legal / Trademarks

## Infrastructure

## Miscellaneous

## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Annotator](#annotator)  
[BlueMarlin](#bluemarlin)   
[Flagon](#flagon)  
[Hivemall](#hivemall)  
[InLong](#inlong)  
[Kyuubi](#kyuubi)  
[Liminal](#liminal)   
[Milagro](#milagro)   
[NuttX](#nuttx)  
[Pegasus](#pegasus)  
[Pony Mail](#pony mail)  
[ShenYu](#shenyu)   
[Teaclave](#teaclave)  
[YuniKorn](#yunikorn)  

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## Annotator

Annotator provides annotation enabling code for browsers, servers, and
humans.

Annotator has been incubating since 2016-08-30.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Build community
  2. Maintain a regular release cadence
  3. Grow the PPMC and committer groups

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  None at this time.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  There was a small surge in interest and issue reports from the community
  surrounding the most recent release, but that has yet to convert into a
  higher level of sustained activity.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  The project completed a second ASF release in September. Highlights of
  the release include converting the project to TypeScript and adding API
  documentation to the website.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2021-09-03

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2018-09-04

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors have been helpful and responsive to questions about release
  process, as well as responsive and supportive around reporting. There
  are no issues at this time.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  The PPMC is not aware of any branding issues at this time.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (annotator) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (annotator) Tommaso Teofili  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (annotator) Benjamin Young  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## BlueMarlin

BlueMarlin will develop a web service to add intelligence functionality to a
plain ad system.

BlueMarlin has been incubating since 2020-06-09.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Improve DL-predictor performance and make error rate less than 15%.
  2. Create a new release plan
  3. Reduce the training time of LookALike model

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  This is the second report since incubation.
  As of September 9th, 2021, the project has 7 contributors and 2 forks.
  It has 11 closed pull requests and 0 open issues.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  The following features/fixes were added after March 30th, 2021:
  1. Fix bugs on DLPredictor
  2. Add outlier module to improve accuracy of the DLPredictor
  3. Consider Ad-Unit-ID in clustering module in DLPredictor
  4. Remove dead-points of time-series in DLPredictor
  5. Add script to report performance statistics of DLPredictor
  6. Add integration tests to DLPredictor
  7. Update Lookalike Application to handle large user set

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:
  NA

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  NA

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes, but still need help to migrate our issue list from original github 
  repo to apache github repo.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Craig Russell  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (bluemarlin) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bluemarlin) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Flagon

Flagon is a software tool usability testing platform

Flagon has been incubating since 2016-07-13.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Continue VOTE thread for Graduation on general@incubator

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  None at this time.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  Onboarding new contributors within a large-scale university consortium.
  We expect VOTES on new committers Q4 2020.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  We have committed minor enhancements to UserALE.js and have maintained 
  the code base.
  Ongoing development and design on visualization (Apache Superset) and 
  analytics packages continues.
  We expect a new UserALE.js release in Q4 2021.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:    

  2021-06-03 Apache UserALE.js 2.2.0

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2021-03-26 (Gedd Johnson)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, Mentors are supportive.
  Slow quarter, with focus on use-case and user community growth/training.
  Expect to reinvigorate Graduation VOTE in 2021 Q4.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (flagon) Lewis John McGibbney  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (flagon) David Meikle  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (flagon) Tim Allison  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (flagon) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Hivemall

Hivemall is a library for machine learning implemented as Hive
UDFs/UDAFs/UDTFs.

Hivemall has been incubating since 2016-09-13.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Community growth (committers and users)
  2. One or more Apache Releases as an Incubator project

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  PPMCs are considering exit approaches including retiring.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  - Not significantly different from the last report.
  - Few traffic from users such as HIVEMALL-306, HIVEMALL-312, HIVEMALL-313
  - Github stars are increased to 292 and 112 forks

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Korean Tokenizer support (HIVEMALL-307)
  - Hotfix for Spark support fixing user reported problems (HIVEMALL-311, 
  HIVEMALL-312, HIVEMALL-314)

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-12-19

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  Elected Jerome Banks as a committer on April 2, 2018.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  Yes, we keep tracking podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hivemall) Daniel Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (hivemall) Koji Sekiguchi  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## InLong

InLong is a one-stop data streaming platform that provides automatic, 
secure, distributed, and efficient data publishing and subscription 
capabilities. This platform helps you easily build stream-based data 
applications.

InLong has been incubating since 2019-11-03.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Improve and optimize the system to solve the system shortboard
  2. Promote the system, to let more people use and participate in the 
  community
  3. Building a diverse community with open governance

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  No issues

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  1. 1 new contributor has joined the community since the last report 
  (currently: 57)
  2. Participated in the ApacheCon Asia online conference in August, 
  introducing the architecture and advantages of InLong
  3. Plan to hold an offline + online meetup in October to discuss how to 
  run the InLong community well in the next

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  In version 0.10.0, we integrated the project, Dockerized all components, 
  provided one-click installation capabilities, simplified module
  configuration, and lowered the threshold for using InLong; in the upcoming
  0.11.0 version, we are doing the following Improvement: the entire chain
  adds support for Pulsar reporting, and the Sort module adds support for
  IceBerg and ClickHouse landing to increase the use of components.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2021-09-14

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  The last committer or PPMC was elected on on 2020-12-15.

  Judging from the current contribution situation,it is expected that 
  someone contributor will be promoted to the committer in the next version.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes, our mentors are very helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Yes, all good here.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (inlong) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (inlong) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (inlong) Sijie Guo  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (inlong) Zhijie Shen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (inlong) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Kyuubi

Kyuubi is a distributed multi-tenant Thrift JDBC/ODBC server for large-scale
data management, processing, and analytics, built on top of Apache Spark and
designed to support more engines.

Kyuubi has been incubating since 2021-06-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Gain more active contributors/committers to build a diverse community
  2. Make Apache releases regularly and keep the quality for all releases
  3. Improve project structure and documentation

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  No

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  1. 4 new contributors participate in the community since the last one. 
  There are currently 46 contributors and 9 committers.
  2. 17 authors have pushed 84 commits to master and 103 commits to all 
  branches. On master, 172 files have changed and there have been 7,220
  additions and 3,188 deletions.
  3. Several discussions/bug reports on the GitHub Issues/WeChat groups, 
  etc.
  4. Number of GitHub stars increased (last report: 692, currently: 754).
  5. Participate in 1 off line meetup (@ Huawei corp., Hangzhou, China) to 
  promote the project.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. We have released 1.3.0-incuabating in Sep. 15
  2. RESTful API Design is accomplished, the community is working on 
  implementation
  3. Z-Order Support under dev
  4. Flink engine support under discussion with a draft

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2021-09-15 

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  No new committer added yet

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  No answer.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (kyuubi) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (kyuubi) Jeff Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (kyuubi) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (kyuubi) Akira Ajisaka  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Liminal

Apache Liminal is an end-to-end platform for data engineers and scientists,
allowing them to build, train and deploy machine learning models in a robust
and agile way.

Liminal has been incubating since 2020-05-23.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Grow developers community.
  2. Adoption of the project by a few companies.
  3. More features - provide out-of-the-box usability for common use-cases.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  NA

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  We have presented Liminal to several companies, got great feedback, and 
  they are now evaluating Liminal for their use cases.
  We have presented in ApacheCon Asia and ApacheCon.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We have released v 0.0.3 - a major milestone to Liminal, containing 
  out-of-the-box functionality to run an ML pipeline locally and in AWS,
  using Airflow, Kubernetes & Spark.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2021-08-12

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  NA

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Super helpful.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  NA

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (liminal) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (liminal) Henry Saputra  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (liminal) Uma Maheswara Rao G  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (liminal) Davor Bonaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (liminal) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Linkis

Apache Linkis is a computation middleware project, which decouples the upper
applications and the underlying data engines, provides standardized
interfaces (REST, JDBC, WebSocket etc.) to easily connect to various
underlying engines (Spark, Presto, Flink, etc.).

Linkis has been incubating since 2021-08-02.  ### Three most important 
unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Improve project infrastructure(CI, CD, test automation, etc.) and 
structure to facilitate community collaboration
2. Make Apache releases regularly and keep the quality for all releases
3. Gain more active contributors and committers to build a diverse community

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  None.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  * No new contributors since last repot(2021/09/14). There are currently 
  51 contributors and 15 committers.
  * 45 issues and 31 pull requests since last report.
  * 125 GitHub stars increased (last report: 2095, currently: 2200).

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Apache release 1.0.3 under development, progress 80%.
  * Linkis website under development, progress 60%.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?

  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2021-09-02

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2021/08

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (Linkis)  Junping_Du  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (Linkis)  Duo Zhang  
     Comments:
  - [ ] (Linkis)  Jerry Shao  
     Comments:
  - [X] (Linkis)  Lidong Dai  
     Comments:
  - [X] (Linkis)  Shao Feng Shi  
     Comments:

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:


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## Milagro

Milagro is core security infrastructure and crypto libraries for
decentralized networks and distributed systems.

Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Continue to build relevant and useful crypto libraries and applications
  for decentralized networks in order to grow the ecosystem of users and
  contributors to the project.
  2.Continue to improve compliance with the Apache Way. In particular to
  update the Milagro website and other project sites (e.g. Whimsy) in
  accordance with Apache policies.   
  3. Further releases to increase the scope of the Milagro project, extend
  the capability of existing releases and to demonstrate improved
  compliance with the Apache Way.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  Administrative tasks are still outstanding due to members' other 
  commitments
  and the pandemic.  These include In particular, a PPMC meeting to discuss
  the project roadmap needs to be arranged, old releases need to be 
  deleted,
  confirmation that the project's Whimsy, Clutch, SVN, Confluence & 
  Committers
  pages are all current, and the code signing keys needs countersigning.
  Investigations into a redirect on Milagro's home page and an XSS
  vulnerability on the Decentralized Trust Authority's Swagger page are 
  ongoing.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  No change.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  Works is still progressing preparing the MPC library for its first 
  official
  Apache release.  Some issue regarding static code analysis were 
  encountered
  but these have now been resolved.  A request to release the Rust version 
  of
  the core crypto library has been received from within the Milagro 
  community.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2020-02-10

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  February 2020

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Previous podling report sign-off was missed.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?   

  No known issues, but further investigation is still required by the
  Milagro community.  

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (milagro) Nick Kew  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (milagro) Jean-Frederic Clere  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## NuttX

NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS).

NuttX has been incubating since 2019-12-09.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Clear any potential infringing use of the NuttX trademark
  2. Achieve a non-WIP Disclaimer release under Apache
  3. Continue to grow the community with people from different background

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  The project has begun to discuss graduation to TLP and hopes to start
  this  process in the near future. We would appreciate any helpful
  feedback that  will assist us in taking this important step forward.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  * Virtually all communications have moved from old venues to  
    dev@nuttx.apache.org. The dev list contains 245 subscribers, an  
    increase of 7% since our previous report, and is the home of most  
    development discussions and user questions.  
  * GitHub's PRs and Issues also have their own discussions.  
  * We are seeing new contributors to the project through GitHub.  
  * No non-PPMC committers have been added since the last report.  
  * One new PPMC member has been added since the last report: Sara  
    Monteiro joined the PPMC in May.  
  * No non-PPMC committers have been added since the last report.  

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  * NuttX developers and contributors organized the annual NuttX  
    Workshop 2021. Due to continuing concerns around COVID, this  
    year's workshop was held online. The event took place on 21-22  
    August 2021 and can be seen online at  
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxhrnO4qz0w. More information  
    about this and other NuttX events can be found at  
    https://nuttx.events.  
  * We continue to make significant steps toward license clearing,  
    needed for graduation. This month, we have received four new SGAs  
    and five new ICLAs. Efforts continue to clear files and change  
    their license to the Apache 2.0 License through the large effort  
    of our volunteers. Since joining the Incubator, tens of thousands  
    of files have been changed to the Apache 2.0 License with the  
    permission of more than 70 individuals and 20 organizations who  
    signed ICLAs, CCLAs, and SGAs to assist us in getting closer to  
    graduation. We are grateful to everyone for their invaluable  
    support through this important process.  
  * NuttX developers and contributors organized an event called NuttX  
    Monthly Meetup, the first event of its kind, which took place at  
    https://meet.jit.si/NuttXMeetup, to discuss topics such as  
    continuing efforts toward license clearing and the next NuttX  
    release. Following the event, a lengthy discussion took place at  
    the NuttX mailing list where concerns were expressed about the  
    meeting's content and synchronous venue. Currently it is unclear  
    whether similar events will be organized in the future. If they  
    will, it seems likely that the focus will be to promote NuttX and  
    answer users questions.  
  * The community has begun discussing the next release, NuttX-10.2,  
    and a developer has volunteered to serve as Release Manager for  
    this release.  
  * Many technical improvements, bug fixes, and new architectures  
    have been collaborated and work continues with several pull  
    requests merged per day.  
  * We have listened to the valuable feedback received during our  
    previous releases and continue to improve our documentation. This  
    can be found at https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/.  

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  NuttX-10.1.0 was released on 2021-05-26.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  Last elected PPMC: 2021-05-08

  Last committer added: 2021-04-14

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Mentors are helpful and responsive.  

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  Podling name was approved on May 17th 2020: https://s.apache.org/4hfzx

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (nuttx) Duo Zhang  
     Comments: Looking forward to your next release. And on the monthly 
     meetup, my suggestion is still that, it is OK to hold these events but the
     final decision must be made on the mailing list, not on the event.
  - [X] (nuttx) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nuttx) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (nuttx) Mohammad Asif Siddiqui  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (nuttx) Flavio Paiva Junqueira  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Pegasus

Pegasus is a distributed key-value storage system which is designed to be
simple, horizontally scalable, strongly consistent and high-performance.

Pegasus has been incubating since 2020-06-28.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Grow the community, attracting more users, contributors and committers 

  2. Resolve the license problems
  3. Publish more releases in ASF policy regularly

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  N/A

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  Since the last report, we have raise a offline meetup on 2021-09-25.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  We are discussing next release, it might be released on the end of 
  October.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2021-06-28: Apache Pegasus(incubating 2.2.0)

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  New committer: Yanzhao Tang(2021-07-07)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  Yes

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (pegasus) Kevin A. McGrail  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (pegasus) Duo zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liu Xun  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Pony Mail

Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
that can be integrated with many email platforms.

Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Grow the community
  2. Work towards a release of Foal
  3. Ensure there are proper unit tests
  4. Add tests for API compatibility
  5.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  None

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  Making great progress on the next gen suite (Foal), with input from the
  usual suspects and more than 20 issues/PRs resolved this quarter, as
  well as lots of traffic on the dev@ list.

  We hope to engage more of the community as well as grow it, in order to
  receive more valuable feedback from especially UI testing.

  We have begun discussing graduation, though we feel we could use a few
  more people for better project oversight.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  No noteworthy developments on the community front, but activity in the
  project as noted above.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2019-04-20

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  Sean Palmer was elected committer on April 2nd, 2021.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  No answer

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  No answer

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (ponymail) Sharan Foga  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## ShenYu

ShenYu is a high performance Microservices API gateway in Java ecosystem, 
compatible with a variety of mainstream framework systems, supports hot 
plug. Users can write their own plugin meet the current requirement and 
future needs in a variety of scenarios, especially in large-scale scenes.

ShenYu has been incubating since 2021-05-03.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Make an Apache Release.
  2. Build new website document.
  3. Building a diverse community with open governance.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  None.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  * 19+ new contributors and 1+ new committers participate in the community 
    since entered the 
  last report. There are currently 207 contributors and 26 committers.
  * 60+ pull request since entered the last report
  * There is regular traffic on the mailing list 
  (~70+ mailing list discussions/month).
  * Number of GitHub stars increased 
  (last report: 5063, currently: 5341).
  * Held 2 community meetings to discuss development tasks 
  and how to build an open governance community.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Ready for release 2.4.1.
  * Add Websocket plugin.
  * Add CryptorRequest plugin.
  * Add CryptorResponsePlugin plugin.
  * Support JDK8 ~ JDK15.
  * Support dynamic loading plugin.
  * Support local modification data mode.
  * Support Grayscale Release for SpringCloud. 
  * Support Grayscale Release for Apache Dubbo.
  * Support sign plugin custom dynamic sign provider.
  * Remove lombok dependency.
  * Remove mapstruct dependency.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  August 2021.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  September 2021

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  The PPMC manages the podling's brand / trademarks.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (shenyu) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shenyu) Jincheng Sun  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (shenyu) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shenyu) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (shenyu) Atri Sharma  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (shenyu) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Teaclave

Teaclave is a universal secure computing platform, making computation on
privacy-sensitive data safe and simple.

Teaclave has been incubating since 2019-08-20.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  - Improve project structure and documentation
  - Grow the community (attracting more committers, contributors, users)
  - Publish Apache releases (resolving logistics on Apache release)

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  None.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  Since the last report, we have organized one monthly virtual meetup (we 
  skipped
  one due to the public holiday). For each meetup, we have minutes write-up
  published on the Teaclave blog.
  - Teaclave Meetup #7: 
  <https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-08-26-teaclave-meetup-7/>

  Starting from this meetup, we use Google Calendar to show the meetup 
  schedule
  and location (i.e., the Zoom link).
  - Teaclave Community Calendar: 
  <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=l1q5osem2br8i4bj7dgik5sa
  e4@group.calendar.google.com>

  We also have two new members elected since the last report:
  - 2021-09-20: Yuan Zhuang (Apache ID: TBD), Committer
  - 2021-09-20: Rong Fan (Apache ID: TBD), Commiter

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  Here are the summaries of recent progress:

  Teaclave Faas Platform

  - Add TVM MNIST example
  - Add IDE helper script
  - Add license header and include SkyWalking Eyes in CI for automatic 
  checking
  - Release v0.3.0: https://teaclave.apache.org/download/#teaclave
  - Consolidate `docker-compose` scripts for servers with different SGX 
  drivers

  Teaclave TrustZone SDK

  - TEE Socket APIs and examples
  - Upgrade building docker to Ubuntu 20.04
  - Switch to GitHub Actions
  - Add -rs to examples and update test scripts
  - Update to OP-TEE 3.14.0

  Teaclave SGX SDK

  - Intel SGX SDK 2.14
  - Move wiki pages to the document directory for homepage rendering
  - Better project template

  Website

  - [blog] 使用 Teaclave SGX SDK 开发 SGX 应用 · Aug 24 2021: 
  <https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-08-25-developing-sgx-application-with
  -teaclave-sgx-sdk/>
  - [blog] Announcing Apache Teaclave (incubating) 0.3.0 · Sep 30 2021: 
  <https://teaclave.apache.org/blog/2021-10-01-announcing-teaclave-0-3-0/>
  - [style] Update the contributors page to include Apache ID and tags for 
  each committers

  Community Collaboration

  - Teaclave/Intel: Integrating Graphene as a new Library OS executor
  - Teaclave/OP-TEE: Integrating examples in Rust TrustZone SDK in OP-TEE

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2021-08-23: Apache Teaclave (incubating) 0.3.0

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  - 2021-09-20: Yuan Zhuang (Apache ID: TBD), Committer
  - 2021-09-20: Rong Fan (Apache ID: TBD), Committer

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, our mentors work responsively to help us with electing new mentors,
  developing new features, fixing bugs, and expanding the community.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  The VP, Brand has approved the project name. (PODLINGNAMESEARCH-175)

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (teaclave) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (teaclave) Furkan Kamaci  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Jianyong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Matt Sicker  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Zhijie Shen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (teaclave) Gordon King  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## YuniKorn

YuniKorn is a standalone resource scheduler responsible for scheduling batch
jobs and long-running services on large scale distributed systems running in
on-premises environments as well as different public clouds.

YuniKorn has been incubating since 2020-01-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Increase the number of contributors and committers.  
  2. Plan feature to release mapping.
  3. Improve the ease of deployment and documentation quality.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  No issues at this point in time.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  Two new committers added, multiple new contributors added to the 
  community.
  Released v0.11.0, work on v1.0.0 is in progress.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  Working towards a v1.0 release. Scheduler interface changes are planned
  to simplify the code. 
  Improved node sorting code. Performance tests showing a major improvement
  and large advantage over the default Kubernetes scheduler. A performance
  blog is in preparation.  
  Blog published (3rd party) on gang scheduling.  

  Some statistics for the report period (2021-07-01 till 2021-09-30):  
  JIRA: 141 created, 118 resolved  
  PRs: 125 opened, 122 resolved  
  17 unique active code contributors (cumulative for all repos)

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2021-08-27

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2021-08-26 & 2021-09-22 committers added

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  No issues that we are aware of.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (yunikorn) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (yunikorn) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (yunikorn) Jason Lowe  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (yunikorn) Holden Karau  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (lresende) Luciano Resende  
     Comments: One of the important aspects of 
       community building is reaching out to the
       folks in the community, I would have expected
       to see a mention about the planned meetup in the
       report -> https://yunikorn.apache.org/community/events

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: